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Monthly Archives: October 2016

NOTE: This story originally appeared in Mayo Clinic’s Discovery’s Edge magazine. For the better part of a century, brain tumors have been judged by their appearance. Where a tumor was located, how much it spread, and what it looked like under the microscope all determined whether a patient was given a good or bad prognosis, […]

Chris Grundner is the Founder of The Kelly Heinz-Grundner Brain Tumor Foundation* & son of the “Tulips Against Tumors” creator. “If I could fill the world with tulips, I would.” Those words were uttered by my wife, Kelly Heinz-Grundner, who died from a brain tumor back in 2004. In the months after Kelly’s passing, I […]

For most organizations and businesses, the Third Quarter (Q3) is a slow period. July and August are two of the biggest vacation months of the year, as folks across most of the country get in their annual summer trips and activities. Then September follows with the rush of back to school and back to work. […]